To be honest, I was intially avoiding WoW like the plague. All I heard was "WoW this" and "WoW that". Was kind of annoying.

So when I started getting annoyed with FFXI, it stopped being fun and started seeming like work, I went looking for another game.

First choice was Wish, but that's been pushed back to the 2nd quarter of 2005. I signed up for the beta for that, which is in december, so may not do WoW until after that beta.. will have to wait and see.

Anyways, since I quit FFXI I was looking for a new game to play. EQ2 didn't interest me, Wish did (but was going to be so long before that came out) so I decided to look some more into WoW.

WACK A$$ FINAL FANTASY!!! Any world where it takes a Dragoon 1 whole week of seeking party to get invited to one, only to have the WHM leave 10 min later and party disband is not the world for me. The **** game could be soooooo much better if the XP system was shifted where you actually can solo a decent,or equal and gain ok XP and downtime wouldnt' matter cause at least you'll be gaining XP while waiting for a PT with a job that's not popular. And Max XP being 200-280 with SC's at any lvl! Thats INSANE, you lose more XP when you die post lvl 40 than you gain!! Urgh oh well before I lose it, I'm patiently waiting for something to change in that game before I try again, my 43 RNG is waiting and WOW is right around the corner....

Seoman!!! YA! Finally someone I know on these boards. So, what're you going to be playing?

Anyway, yeah, I came from FFXI too... though have quit a long while ago. Basically, I've just been killing time by playing random video games (MegaMan Aniversary Collection, Xenosaga, Doom 1&2, MechWarrior 3, etc...)

WoW seems like it's going to be alot of things that FFXI wasn't, which is a good thing. There's been alot of "FFXI VS WoW" threads, but it's basically which style of play you prefer. If you like being in a party at all times, then FFXI is probably your type of game. On the other hand, if you like being able to do things by yourself, having the option to group when you want to, then WoW might be the better fit. It's just all a matter of preference.

Dragoon 1 whole week of seeking party to get invited to one, only to have the WHM leave 10 min later and party disband is not the world for me.

I don't know about FFXI but when i was playing EQ most days i couldn't find a group after a few hours so i was forced to solo. When i becamed 45 i joined a good guild and then everything was almost perfect leveling.

I know how you feel i was a dark knight. I do advise you try DAOC any ANY class can solo, even the healers, parties are even better cuz u actually Kill a few mobs at a time. oh and almost every class can solo ojs (tough enemies) and reds (very tuff enemies) yellow (even match) are very easy and u can chain em forever. Its a good game to spend some time until WOW comes out. oh and go to the gaheris server, its the pve server and its fun as **** (no bots)

Well, I'm definitely going to be making a warrior (human), a mage (once again, probably human), and a warlock (undead). I'm not sure which one is going to be my main atm, but hopefully they'll all be fun.

So, have you "officially" quit FFXI, or are you still just taking a break?

I played Galaxies for a short while, I guess 3 months or so. I left because of numerous reasons which I won't bother going into here. However, it had potential to be a great game if it had been done right... sadly, it wasn't.

Ah.. good ol' UO. That was my first MMO, like 8 or 9 years ago. I stopped playing when they started updating the graphics and my poor computer and 56k connection couldn't handle them. If I knew where my disk was, I'd probably play that to kill some time, though it would suck to have to re-level my character back to where it was when I quit. *sigh* Ah well...

I have yet to find another MMO that could hold my attention for as long a time as UO did. With any luck, WoW will be able to, but who knows...

Fable looks awesome, though I don't have an X-Box, so I don't believe I'll be playing it.

Once my new computer gets here, I'll probably kill some time with Doom 3, though I don't know how long it will take to get through it. If it's anything like the first two, it won't take too terribly long.

UO was just a great over all game. They constantly had awesome events (Fall and Retaking of Tristan... god that was awesome), and a great storyline.

I did like the PvP in that game, to a degree. I liked the fact that you couldn't really tell how much better someone was than you. It wasn't a case of "Oh, you're obviously a lvl 31, so I'm gonna run away." Instead it was "Oh, you're a Grand Master Healer... hrmm..." two hits later, "...And apparently a Grand Master Swordsman too..." *runs away*